Dear Sanctuary Writers

I understand this week's episode was your 'we blew our budget for sweeps now we gotta do an ep as cheaply as humanly possible, ie, sticking two people in a room and hope it's entertaining for 42 minutes' but I just have two words for you - SUB PLOT!! Or at least ya'll could have watched Doctor Who's Midnight as an example of how to do this well-worn plot effectively. 'Cuz that was a 20 minute episode stretched to an interminable 42 minutes.

Also, I know that in Hollywoodland and, especially, the offices of SciFi there's the mantra belief that no story is worth telling unless it revolves around a heterosexual white-male preferably aged between 25-45 (a mantra also pinned to the computers of the Heroes staff) but, seriously, a little less Will please! I'm *really* starting to hate the character, especially since you guys keep shoving the 'Will's Special, no, he really is' theme down my throat by having him DO NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY! I mean, it's great that SciFi went out on a limb by airing a show that has a *gasp* woman as its lead, it'd just be nice if she were, you know, actually allowed to be the lead as opposed to co-lead.

And, yes, I do think this ep would have been more effective had it been Ashley instead of Will. Despite all of Will's emo-boy manpain, Ashley's the one with an immortal for a mother and a sociopathic, serial killer for a father. If you're looking for a well to mine for some drama? Ya'll are looking in the wrong place.

Anyway, I'm enjoying the show I just wish you guys (seriously, why don't you have a woman on your writing staff?) would skip a couple chapters in your "Book of Storytelling Sci-Fi Cliches For the Low Budget Writer" because, seriously, an 'underground fight club' episode? An UNDERGROUND FIGHT CLUB episode!?!

Fan Art: IDoF '09 - Mars Needs Lesbians!

Ooh, look at me two posts in *one* day. I'm on a roll. Anyway, here's a little something I made for 'Int'l Day of Femslash '09'. Because what the world needs is a movie where Katherine Heigl plays a lesbian Martian named Voluptua, with a diabolical plan to steal Earth's lesbians for the sole purpose of powering her 'orgasmatron ray of death'. Lena Headey plays a Secret Service Agent named Sixty-Nine, and Freema Agyeman plays the only scientist (and quite possibly the last lesbian on earth) who can stop Voluptua's evil plan.



( I Now Present 'Mars Needs Lesbians.. and so does EARTH!' )

x-posted to passion_perfect